Garlick, US
Bruce E. Garlick, Austin, TX US
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20100043869 | SOLAR PANEL LIGHT INDICATOR/DECORATIVE SYSTEM - A solar power generation system containing a plurality of roofing tiles, each of which containing a housing that encloses photovoltaic panels, solar panel control systems and light sources (light source). The housing and solar panel control system, in addition, may also contain modules and assemblies such as solar panel processing circuitry, communication and power interfaces, heater assembly, electrical rotational assembly, self cleaning assembly, and so forth. For optimal functioning, it is essential that all these modules incorporated within the housing function properly. The light sources are communicatively coupled to the solar panel processing circuitry and a central control unit; and are operable to produce a visible output. The light sources identify a solar panel among plurality of solar panels of the solar power generation system, and display a visible light that indicates operating condition of that solar panel. The visible light may indicate, for instance, problems related to the maintenance, cleaning, solar panel positional adjustment, and heater assembly. The visible light may also indicate operational conditions of a plurality of solar panels, within a block of roofing tiles; where rest of the roofing tiles are incorporated with minimum number of light sources, to minimize the cost. In addition, the visible output may display colorful holiday lighting and advertisements, especially at the roofing edges. | 02-25-2010 |
20100043870 | SOLAR PANEL MONITORING SYSTEM - A solar panel of a solar power generation system consisting housing within a roofing tile, photovoltaic panels and solar panel monitoring system disposed within the housing. The solar panel monitoring system, in turn, consists of solar panel processing circuitry, solar panel communications interface, solar panel memory and solar panel sensor coupled to the photovoltaic panel. The solar panel processing circuitry performs monitoring and maintenance activities within the roofing tile, by receiving sensory data from the solar panel sensor regarding performance of the photovoltaic panel and other modules and stores the received sensory data in the solar panel memory. In addition the solar panel processing circuitry is operable to deliver the stored sensory data to a central control unit via the solar panel communications interface. The other modules within the roofing tile includes solar panel communication and power interfaces, solar panel memory, heater assembly, electrical rotational assembly and lighting module, all of which are coupled to the photovoltaic panel via a solar panel power bus to receive power and interconnected via a solar panel communication bus. | 02-25-2010 |
20130128562 | SOLAR PANEL LIGHT INDICATOR/DECORATIVE SYSTEM - A solar power generation system contains a housing that encloses photovoltaic panels, solar panel control systems, light sources and may also contain modules and assemblies such as solar panel processing circuitry, communication and power interfaces, heater assembly, electrical rotational assembly, self cleaning assembly, and so forth. For optimal functioning, it is essential that all these modules incorporated within the housing function properly. The light sources are communicatively coupled to the solar panel processing circuitry and a central control unit; and are operable to produce a visible output. The light sources identify a solar panel among plurality of solar panels of the solar power generation system, and display a visible light that indicates operating condition of that solar panel, which may be problems related to the maintenance, cleaning, solar panel positional adjustment, heater assembly. The visible output may display colorful holiday lighting and advertisements, especially at the roofing edges. | 05-23-2013 |
George F. Garlick, Richland, WA US
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20130033976 | STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN OPTICAL IMAGE FROM AN ULTRASONIC HOLOGRAPHIC PATTERN - An acoustic hologram imaging system constructed from a machined housing having folded optics. Various surfaces of the housing are machined to provide a precise alignment to the optical members to be connected thereto, such as a mirror, a lens assembly, a light emitting laser diode, a camera, and the like. A three-part lens is described having different materials with different indexes of refraction in order to provide a desired focus of the light. In addition, an optical spatial filter is disclosed in which, according to various embodiments, all, some, or none of the light passing therethrough is attenuated for recording of the optical image of the hologram. | 02-07-2013 |
Lincoln Garlick, Santa Clara, CA US
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20130191692 | INITIALIZATION OF GPU USING ROM-BASED INITIALIZATION UNIT AND PROGRAMMABLE MICROCONTROLLER - An approach is disclosed for performing initialization operations for a graphics processing unit (GPU). The approach includes detecting errors while performing one or more initialization operations. Further, the approach includes releasing a holdoff on a communication link that couples the GPU to a memory bridge and causing debug output to be displayed to a user that indicates the error. | 07-25-2013 |
Lincoln G. Garlick, Santa Clara, CA US
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20140095759 | REPLICATED STATELESS COPY ENGINE - Techniques are disclosed for performing an auxiliary operation via a compute engine associated with a host computing device. The method includes determining that the auxiliary operation is directed to the compute engine, and determining that the auxiliary operation is associated with a first context comprising a first set of state parameters. The method further includes determining a first subset of state parameters related to the auxiliary operation based on the first set of state parameters. The method further includes transmitting the first subset of state parameters to the compute engine, and transmitting the auxiliary operation to the compute engine. One advantage of the disclosed technique is that surface area and power consumption are reduced within the processor by utilizing copy engines that have no context switching capability. | 04-03-2014 |
20140109102 | TECHNIQUE FOR IMPROVING PERFORMANCE IN MULTI-THREADED PROCESSING UNITS - A multi-threaded processing unit includes a hardware pre-processor coupled to one or more processing engines (e.g., copy engines, GPCs, etc.) that implement pre-emption techniques by dividing tasks into smaller subtasks and scheduling subtasks on the processing engines based on the priority of the tasks. By limiting the size of the subtasks, higher priority tasks may be executed quickly without switching the context state of the processing engine. Tasks may be subdivided based on a threshold size or by taking into account other consideration such as physical boundaries of the memory system. | 04-17-2014 |
Michael S. Garlick, Bothell, WA US
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20080276260 | Adaptive User Interface Verification - User interface verification may be provided. First, a known good file may be received. Next, an automation may be run on an application program to place the application program in a predetermined state. Data from the known good file may then be compared to data corresponding to a user interface corresponding to the predetermined state of the application program. In response to the comparison, results corresponding to comparing the data from the known good file to the data corresponding to the user interface may be reported. | 11-06-2008 |
Michael Shawn Garlick, Bothell, WA US
Richard M. Garlick, Des Plaines, IL US
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20090083118 | SEGMENTED MOTIVATION PROFILES - A method of developing a motivation to motivate participants associated with a program-owner. The reward types of a motivation profile are defined and the participants' preferences are collected through a survey. The collected participants' preferences are modeled to determine segments of participants with similar reward preferences. An optimal motivation profile consisting of the participants' preferred reward types is generated from the modeled data and presented to the program owner in a detailed report. Additionally, a motivation profile simulator for simulating the participants' preference to a proposed motivation profile and a segmentation tool for displaying the characteristics of each segment is generated. | 03-26-2009 |
Rodney O. Garlick, West Point, UT US
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20140172548 | PROVIDING NOTIFICATIONS OF USER SELECTION OF ADVERTISEMENTS - The present invention is generally directed to providing notifications when a user selects an advertisement. The advertisements can be displayed in an interface such as a webpage that provides password management. The advertisements can be related to goods or services provided by an entity that sponsors the webpage. When the user selects an advertisement, one or more notifications can be generated and sent to the entity and/or the user. These notifications can be used to increase the likelihood that the user will purchase the goods or services advertised, as well as to evaluate the effectiveness of an advertisement. The present invention also extends to rotating the source of advertisements that are displayed in a webpage. The present invention further extends to verifying user credentials that are provided for logging in to a website, and automatically logging a user out of a website once the user credentials have been verified. | 06-19-2014 |
20140173708 | CLOUD BASED PASSWORD MANAGEMENT - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a cloud based password manager that automatically logs in users from any computer. The cloud based password manager does not require that the user install a local plug-in or other tool to perform automatic login. In this sense, unlike current password managers, the password manager of the present invention is completely cloud based. By simply using any browser or a dedicated app on any computer, the user can request a website and receive a copy of the website with the user logged in even if the user has never used the computer. | 06-19-2014 |
Russell K. Garlick, Needham, MA US
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20080272002 | System and Method for Proteomics - Significantly higher yield and better resolution in pI gels are obtained by creating traps having two or more layers of gel containing closely stepped immobilized pH buffers. Proteins move from a pH at which they are negatively charged towards an anode at which they are positively charged. Discrete regions containing immobilized pH buffers trap the proteins when the immobilized buffer pH and the protein pI are approximately the same. The protein is trapped within the second layer and not on the surface of or interface of the second layer. Significantly higher yields with better resolution can be obtained through the use of layered sample application gels prior to isoelectric focusing. Layered plugs are prepared with a range of immobilized pH buffers ranging, for example, over 2 pH units, with steps of 0.05 or 0.1 pH units. An array of multilayered plugs wherein each plug has different pH increments is also provided. The array can be used to isolate and trap a variety of proteins having different isoelectric pHs during a single run. Another embodiment provides plugs having at least three layers; a gate layer, a trap layer, and an exit layer. Another embodiment includes adding a carrier ampholytes to running buffers and or adding thiol containing reducing agents to reduce current and improve resolution and collection efficiency. | 11-06-2008 |
Steven Garlick, Chino Hills, CA US
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20100079727 | INTERMEDIATE FILM IDENTIFIER MARKING - A method includes impacting at least one identifier on a section of passing film for identifying the film as a source for content copied from the film. | 04-01-2010 |
20100095982 | FILM CLEANING SYSTEM - A film cleaning system for removing debris from film is described. The film cleaning system includes at least one cleaning member. Associated with each cleaning member is an adhesive member. As the film begins its transport through the cleaning system and is brought into contact with the cleaning member the adhesive member is engaged with the cleaning member. The cleaning member removes debris from the film and the adhesive member prevents the cleaning member from being loaded with debris from the film providing a self-cleaning attribute as well as improving the quality and cleanliness of the film. | 04-22-2010 |
Todd F. Garlick, Mccook, NE US
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20130033976 | STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN OPTICAL IMAGE FROM AN ULTRASONIC HOLOGRAPHIC PATTERN - An acoustic hologram imaging system constructed from a machined housing having folded optics. Various surfaces of the housing are machined to provide a precise alignment to the optical members to be connected thereto, such as a mirror, a lens assembly, a light emitting laser diode, a camera, and the like. A three-part lens is described having different materials with different indexes of refraction in order to provide a desired focus of the light. In addition, an optical spatial filter is disclosed in which, according to various embodiments, all, some, or none of the light passing therethrough is attenuated for recording of the optical image of the hologram. | 02-07-2013 |